But it bests both Spotify, with its 71 million paying members, and Apple Music’s 40 million in the music streaming sector. In digital service terms, Amazon lags behind its chief video streaming rival, Netflix, which has 125 million worldwide subscribers who pay on average £85 a year. “It’s a mind boggling number that serves as a key barometer to how big Amazon’s kingdom has become,” said Daniel Ives at the research group GBH Insights, which had previously estimated 92 million Prime subscribers.īezos said Amazon had shipped more than 5bn items to Prime members globally in 2017. The service was first launched 13 years ago as a way of fostering customer loyalty. Jeff Bezos, its chief executive, revealed the subscription numbers in his annual letter to shareholders.
In 2016, Sky Sports dropped its coverage of the US Open after 25 years, ending one of the longest major sports rights deals.Īmazon revealed this week that it has more than 100 million subscribers to its Prime service.
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Wimbledon is protected by regulations as a “listed event”, meaning it has to be available in the UK on free-to-air TV, with the BBC holding the TV rights. Subscribers who pay to access additional channels can also watch Eurosport, which has the UK rights to the Australian and French opens. The deal means that Amazon can provide Prime Video subscribers with access to three of the four grand slams. “This makes Prime Video a destination for tennis fans.”
“We are proud to add the US Open to the growing portfolio of sports available on Prime Video,” said Alex Green, managing director of channels and sports for Amazon’s Prime Video operation in Europe. Securing the rights to one of the four tennis grand slams adds to Amazon’s £50m, five-year, deal for the UK rights to the ATP World Tour, the men’s global competition featuring Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, for which it outbid Sky.
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It will be provided to subscribers to its Prime service, which costs £79 a year and includes access to the streaming of music, films and TV shows such as The Grand Tour, plus free delivery of DVDs, CDs and books and other items purchased from Amazon.
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